Govt paving way for end of its rule: Siraj

ISLAMABAD: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Senator Sirajul Haq has said the rulers had paved the way for the end of their rule by shedding the blood of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees.

Addressing the PIA employees staging sit-in at Islamabad airport, he said that the PIA was the symbol of the country abroad and an ambassador for the country. He said that rulers would have to account for the blood of the PIA employees and announced that the JI would not abandon the PIA employees in their hour of trial.

Sirajul Haq said the JI did not believe in politics of dead bodies. However, he said, the JI fully shared the grief and anguish of the PIA employees and the families of the martyrs. He said the government had lathi-charged the employees instead of giving them the right to protest.

The JI chief said that the institutions privatised so far had only harmed the national economy, and added that the JI did not want the PIA to be handed over to a contractor or a moneymaker. He said the JI wanted the workers’ share in major national institutions, adding that instead of selling out the institutions, the rulers should plan their rehabilitation. He said that the problem lays with the whole system and not institutions, asking masses to rise against the corrupt.